Top 581 Quotes & Sayings by Timothy Keller
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
Christianity does not provide the reason for
each experience of pain,
but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering
with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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